Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let A be a uniform algebra on a compact Hausdorff space X. The spectrum, or the maximal ideal space, MA, of A is given by
We define the measure spectrum, SA, of A by
SA is the set of all representing measures on X for all Φ ∈ MA. (A representing measure for Φ ∈ MA is a probability measure μ on X satisfying
The concept of representing measure continues to be an effective tool in the study of uniform algebras. See for example [12, Chapters 2 and 3], [5, pp. 15-22] and [3]. Most of the known results on the subject of representing measures, however, concern measures associated with a single homomorphism.